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OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Recommendations on how the next generation of international vessels should best be accommodated in New Zealand will soon be delivered by the New Zealand Shippers Council.

23rd April 2009

Shippers council takes lead on big ships

23rd April 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Salonika Port Authority has officially confirmed its decision to cancel the international tender to find a concessionaire for its container terminal.

23rd April 2009

Salonika kills concession concept

23rd April 2009

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

DP World reported profits in 2008 of $621m, an increase of 48%. Revenue went up 20% to $3.23bn, while throughput rose 15% to 27.7m teu. Cash generated by operations rose 12% to…

23rd April 2009

DP World remains profitable

23rd April 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Shipping line and operator K Line has been awarded the coveted Green Flag Award by the Port of Long Beach for the fourth consecutive year for its contribution to environmental conservation in…

23rd April 2009

K Line scoops green award again

23rd April 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Nine bids were received to build the planned Chennai Mega-Container Terminal, which will be implemented as part of a build-operate-transfer contract lasting 30 years. The project requires investment of $730m over four…

23rd April 2009

Nine bid for Chennai

23rd April 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Vacuum or mechanical? It is an issue that the industry is beginning tobe familiar with - but which kind of unloader do you go with when thematerial in question is as low-cost,…

22nd April 2009

Cement handling

22nd April 2009

ASIA

ASIA

The Chinese Ying Kou Port Group is to invest $439m this year on building new ports and terminals, which include dry bulk and oil handling facilities.

22nd April 2009

Ying Kou in massive Chinese investment

22nd April 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The global economic crisis, which began toseriously impact on the manufacturing industry last autumn, has left many suppliersscratching their heads to identify where new orders might come from. Howtimes have changed.

21st April 2009

Sign of the times

21st April 2009

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

Rafael Cañizares of Moffatt & Nichol, explains how a channel modelling project undertaken by the company in Colombia enabled significant savings to be made.

20th April 2009

Modelling a deeper channel

20th April 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Spanish RTG users argue a strong case with Barry Cross for keeping maintenance in-house

20th April 2009

RTG article

20th April 2009

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) is to become the first operator to employ Navis SPARCS N4 terminal operating system across multiple sites.

20th April 2009

Navis multi-site first

20th April 2009

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Eurogate, which operates ten container terminals in Europe, is focusing more and more on environmental issues. Hanna Pötter, responsible for environmental improvements, explains what has been done so far.

17th April 2009

Eurogate Terminals go green

17th April 2009

AFRICA

AFRICA

Durban Container Terminal reported a 15.6% drop in the year-on-year traffic between December and February. Had transhipment traffic not risen the downturn would have been around 29%.

17th April 2009

Traffic meltdown at Durban

17th April 2009

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

US company CenterPoint Properties, which is heavily involved in property and infrastructure investment, has put forward an offer to acquire the port activities of Virginia Port Authority, which owns Virginia International Terminals…

17th April 2009

CPP to buy Virginia port assets

17th April 2009

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Managed realignments can be used as sites for beneficial sediment use to create coastal environments. Colin Scott and Susanne Armstrong of ABP Marine Environmental Research Limited (ABPmer) review some examples.

16th April 2009

Using tidal waters to create coastal habitats

16th April 2009

ASIA

ASIA

Nazery Khalid weighs up the merits of a liberalised port tariff regime in Malaysia

16th April 2009

To liberalise or not to liberalise?

16th April 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

All three plates shown here were submerged for six months at the Thames Barrier. The results show clearly corrosion of the bare aluminium sample, some protection with the sol-gel coating without bacteria…

16th April 2009

The bio-barrier

16th April 2009

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

So much upheaval is rocking the world economy that ports executivesare well advised to train their eyes on the insurance sector as well ason the financial and maritime news.

16th April 2009

The Insurer

16th April 2009

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Professor Robert Akid explains how research into bio-activesol-gels could result in an effective, low-cost andenvironmentally-friendly means of combating bio-fouling

15th April 2009

Good Bacteria to Save the Day?

15th April 2009

EUROPE

EUROPE

Liverpool committed £ 6.5m to its Seaforth terminal in the last quarter of 2008, buying a £ 5.1m ship-to-shore Liebherr gantry and three new Noell straddle carriers from Germany at a cost…

15th April 2009

Liverpool equipment spend

15th April 2009